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Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts

Sidecar is a wonderful pattern to solve many shared component problems - but it should not be used to load balance endpoints

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

VMs vs ContainersInefficiency and down time have traditionally kept CTO’s and IT decision makers up at night. Now, new challenges are emerging driven by infrastructure inflexibility…

Eric Arrington

· 9 min read

Living in a DR World (Disaster Recovery for the Rest of Us)

Growing your site requires solid architectural tools that are applied uniformly and consistently. In AKF's 12 plus years of Technical Due Diligence, workshops, and long term engagements, we've seen that almost all inhibitors of scale, reliability, and growth point back to poor execution of sound architectural principles.

Pete Ferguson

· 4 min read

The Scale Cube: Achieve Security Through Scalability

If AKF Partners had to be known for one thing and one thing only it would be the Scale Cube. An ingenious little model designed for companies to identify how scalable they are…

AKF

· 3 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Mesh

Microservice Anti-Pattern The Service Mesh - why not to use and how to fix

Marty Abbott

· 1 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fuse

Microservice Anti-Pattern - single data store accessed by multiple services.

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

Why is launching an MVP so difficult?

The MVP method is frequently referenced but rarely used. When used, it can be very valuable in gaining an understanding of your client's true need.

AKF

· 5 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fuse

Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Fuse - Shared Services decrease availability

Marty Abbott

· 2 min read

Results and Outcomes – Why Companies Fail

Often companies get hyper focused on the day-to-day and miss out on the outcomes and results of their applications and products - thus leaving an open gateway for the competition and well-funded upstarts to take market share.

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fan Out

Microservice Anti-Pattern - multiple data stores for a single service lowers availability. Split services and allow single services to own their own data stores.

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

Latency can have a big impact on your bottom line. Understanding the root causes latency and strategies on how to fix latency is

Eric Arrington

· 9 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

Microservice Anti-Pattern regarding services that fan out to other services

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Calls in Series (The Xmas Tree Light Anti-Pattern)

The multiplicative effect of failure and how it creates an anti-pattern of serialized calls in microservices architectures.

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The AKF Partners Session State Cube

Prescriptive and descriptive model for evaluation of session and state in services

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

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